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90Sharing the responsibility of dealing with climate change: Interpreting the principle of common but differentiated responsibilitiesIn Jonathan Boston, Andrew Bradstock & David L. Eng (eds.), Public policy: why ethics matters, Anue Press. pp. 141-158. 2010.In this chapter we first discuss the main principles of justice and note the standard objections to them, which we believe necessitate a hybrid approach. The hybrid account we defend is primarily based on the distributive principle of sufficientarianism, which we interpret as the idea that each country should have the means to provide a minimally decent quality of life for each of its citizens. We argue that sufficientarian considerations give good reason to think that what we call the ‘ability …Read more
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10LEGO® ValuesIn William Irwin & Roy T. Cook (eds.), LEGO® and Philosophy, Wiley. 2017-07-26.Playing with LEGO is naturally educational—it supports free play, imagination, and creativity. LEGO is forward‐thinking—it was one of the first toys to promote gender equality. LEGO advertises itself as a lifestyle choice whose values include being part of a team that educates people, that does the right thing, and that prides itself on its wholesomeness. This image is rather different from the reality of LEGO as a for‐profit company. The Greenpeace video undermines the entire ideology behind th…Read more
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8Garrett Cullity, Concern, Respect, & CooperationJournal of Moral Philosophy 17 (5): 559-562. 2020.
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35Virtue Ethics and the Concept of ActionRevista Portuguesa de Filosofia 76 (1): 61-74. 2020.This paper explores some parallels between the concept of action as it is deployed in two theoretical projects: constructing a virtue-ethical account of right action; and explaining human actions in causal terms. Although one project is normative and the other non-normative, I argue that they face essentially the same fundamental challenge: both have a difficult time dealing with the familiar fact that persons have the ability to act out of character. For virtue ethics, this fact threatens to un…Read more
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24Intergenerational justice, intra-generational counterfactuals, and the non-identity problemIntergenerational Justice Review 5 (2). 2020.No abstract.
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23Globalizing Justice: The Ethics of Poverty and Power – By Richard W. Miller; Politics as Usual: What Lies Behind the Pro‐Poor Rhetoric – By Thomas Pogge; The Life You Can Save: Acting Now to End World Poverty – By Peter Singer (review)Journal of Applied Philosophy 29 (1): 79-83. 2012.
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186Why companions in guilt arguments still work: Reply to CowiePhilosophical Quarterly. forthcoming.
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49Intergenerational Justice, edited by Axel Gosseries and Lukas H. MeyerMind 125 (499): 913-918. 2016.
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147Bad News for Moral Error Theorists: There Is No Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt StrategiesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 95 (1): 58-69. 2017.A ‘companions in guilt’ strategy against moral error theory aims to show that the latter proves too much: if sound, it supports an implausible error-theoretic conclusion in other areas such as epistemic or practical reasoning. Christopher Cowie [2016 Cowie, C. 2016. Good News for Moral Error Theorists: A Master Argument Against Companions in Guilt Strategies, Australasian Journal of Philosophy 94/1: 115–30.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] [Google Scholar]] has recently produced what…Read more
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4World Poverty and Human RightsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3): 449-451. 2003.Book Information World Poverty and Human Rights. World Poverty and Human Rights Thomas Pogge Cambridge Polity Press 2002 vii + 284 Paperback US$28, £18 By Thomas Pogge. Polity Press. Cambridge. Pp. vii + 284. Paperback:US$28, £18
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22Prudence, Identity, and ValueIn Heather Dyke (ed.), Time and Ethics: Essays at the Intersection, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 27--39. 2003.
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71Suffering and moral responsibility (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80 (2). 2002.Book Information Suffering and Moral Responsibility. Suffering and Moral Responsibility Meyerfeld Jamie New York Oxford University Press ix + 237 Hardback £35 By Meyerfeld Jamie. Oxford University Press. New York. Pp. ix + 237. Hardback:£35.
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274Evolutionary debunking of morality: epistemological or metaphysical?Philosophical Studies 173 (2): 417-435. 2016.It is widely supposed that evolutionary debunking arguments against morality constitute a type of epistemological objection to our moral beliefs. In particular, the debunking force of such arguments is not supposed to depend on the metaphysical claim that moral facts do not exist. In this paper I argue that this standard epistemological construal of EDAs is highly misleading, if not mistaken. Specifically, I argue that the most widely discussed EDAs all make key and controversial metaphysical cl…Read more
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21Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State Luis Cabrera,Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World StatePolitics and Ethics Review 2 (1): 97-100. 2006.
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Medical Student Narratives For Understanding Disease And Social Order In The Third WorldEubios Journal of Asian and International Bioethics 13 (4): 139-142. 2003.
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378Virtue ethics and right actionAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 81 (3). 2003.In this paper I evaluate some recent virtue-ethical accounts of right action [Hursthouse 1999; Slote 2001; Swanton 2001]. I argue that all are vulnerable to what I call the insularity objection : evaluating action requires attention to worldly consequences external to the agent, whereas virtue ethics is primarily concerned with evaluating an agent's inner states. More specifically, I argue that insofar as these accounts are successful in meeting the insularity objection they invite the circulari…Read more
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114Has Industrialization Benefited No One? Climate Change and the Non-Identity ProblemEthical Theory and Moral Practice 17 (4): 747-759. 2014.Within the climate justice debate, the ‘beneficiary pays’ principle holds that those who benefit from greenhouse emissions associated with industrialization ought to pay for the costs of mitigating and adapting to their adverse effects. This principle constitutes a claim of inter-generational justice, and it is widely believed that the non-identity problem raises serious difficulties for any such claim. After briefly sketching the rationale behind ‘beneficiary pays,’ this paper offers a new way …Read more
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6Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World State Luis Cabrera, Political Theory of Global Justice: A Cosmopolitan Case for the World StateJournal of International Political Theory 2 97-100. 2006.
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Victoria University of WellingtonSchool of History, Philosophy, Political Science and International RelationsSenior Lecturer